As many of you know, we had housed our Periscope videos on Katch. But when they closed their site we had the scopes transferred to YouTube. Now, each Thursday, we’ll make a new batch public!
Here are videos newly available on our YouTube page:
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This one was already public but is still helpful!
The vintage Disney melmac plate above is part of a set that was released as original movie merchandise that accompanied the film in theaters (GranniesKitchen cc).
Fifty-two years ago, a film arrived in cinemas that would go down in history as one of the greatest of all time.
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Based on the novel of the same name, Mary Poppins tells the story of a mysterious woman who flies by umbrella into the lives of the Banks family. With their father busy at the bank and their mother committed to the Suffragette’s Movement, Jane and Michael need a nanny to look after them, and Mary Poppins is just the woman for the job.
Mary and her friend Bert the chimney sweep take the children on the adventure of a lifetime, into a world of singing penguins and tea parties on the ceiling, magical merry-go-rounds and staircases made of smoke. They discover the fun in tidying up a nursery with magic, journey into chalk pavement drawings, and explore the rooftops of London. But the children’s harassed father doesn’t entirely approve of magic and fun, and when he loses his job at the bank it will take all of Mary’s powers to make everyone happy again.
A true giant among family films, Mary Poppins is a timeless classic that’s so packed full of color and fun that it’s impossible not to enjoy!
If you want to make your movie experience even more supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, you might try one or two of these ideas.
After the movie you might invite kids to create their own sidewalk chalk art like Bert does. And if you’d like to make your own sidewalk paint, here are instructions.
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A friend asks you over to play cards on Saturday night. You say yes, and she tells you how much she’s looking forward to it and that she’s baking cookies. Saturday afternoon, though, another friend calls and says she has an extra ticket to a concert you were dying to attend (it was sold out), but it’s also that night! “Will you go with me?” she asks. What do you do? Explain your decision.
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For years, I’ve been saying at home education conferences that more American high school graduates should take a gap year. ~Susan Wise Bauer
Liam took a gap year. Noah took a gap year. Some people think that the gap year needs to be “something productive.” Noah’s wasn’t anything extraordinary. It was his time to do what he wanted when he wanted to do it. Liam’s was a year of earning money to travel in Europe for a month. Both benefited from not going directly to college following high school.
Johannah is in the middle of several gap years, if you want to look at it that way. When many of her peers went directly into grad school after college, she chose to teach in France for a year, then work in social work for three years in New York and now is living in South America. She’s deferring her admittance to graduate school to continue her travels for one more year.
In your desire to prepare your kids for college, don’t forget that taking time off between high school and college is valuable!
Both Susan and I have shared that students we meet in our college classes who are a little older tend to bring more to the classroom and fare better than their younger peers. Something to enthusiastically consider!
How Common is a Gap Year? by Adrienne Green
“…an increasingly popular tradition in the United States: the gap year….the year-long deferral where many students choose to travel, pursue special projects, or gain work experience.”
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